QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Pain. Love it, hate it, get angry at it. Breath it with every breath, feel it with every step and use it. It lets you know you are still alive, more alive than most people will be in their whole lives."

- Strauss

I dedicate this post to my virtual friend Stephen, down there in California -- hospitalized with a sometimes debilitating lung disease two weeks before the Portland Marathon -- comes out of the hospital and finishes Portland upright and smiling -- A PROFILE IN COURAGE to say the very least ---THANK YOU STEPHEN FOR REMINDING US ALL WHAT THIS IS ALL ABOUT!!!!

I will certainly carry Stephen's inspiration with me to Japan -- with he and Tammy on my shoulders how could I possibly go wrong.....